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Title: SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Franz Livio, Fabiano Monti
Description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has increasingly been exploited for snow and avalanche research to derive spatially explicit information...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing; wet snow; snow depth; avalanche deposits
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Title: AUTOMOTIVE LIDARS UTILIZED TO PROVIDE REAL TIME SNOW DEPTH MAPPING FOR AVALANCHE FORECASTING AND DECISION-MAKING IN SKI RESORTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Stefan Muckenhuber, Thomas Gölles, Stefan Wallner, Birgit Schlager, Stefan Graf, Florian Singer
Description: LiDARs are used for snow depth mapping for all scales, from satellites, airplanes, drones, mobile vehicles, and terrestrial based since about 20 years...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.44.pdf
Keywords: lidar, laser scanning, snow depth, snow accumulation, low-cost
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Title: DRONE DOCKING STATIONS FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SNOW DEPTH AND AVALANCHE MAPPING: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Yves Bühler
Description: A drone docking station is an autonomous hub designed to support the remote operation of drones, thus eliminating the need for on-site personnel. In w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.15.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, uas, drone dock, photogrammetry, snow depth.
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Title: Near real-time snow depth monitoring with low-cost lidar sensors for road safety decisions
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Pia Ruttner, Julia Glaus, Yves Bühler
Description: Operational avalanche safety decisions often must be taken under conditions of limited direct observations and sparse spatial data coverage. In partic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.27.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, snow depth monitoring, low-cost lidar, road safety
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Title: FROM POINT TO SLOPE: ASSESSING WEATHER STATION SNOW DEPTH REPRESENTATIVENESS USING LIDAR AND GEOSTATISTICS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Katreen M. Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel J. Wolken, Michael Janes
Description: Weather station data are widely used by avalanche forecasters to validate meteorological forecasts and to assess snowpack characteristics at specific ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.31.pdf
Keywords: weather stations, snow depth, spatial representativeness, snow prediction, lidar.
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Title: DRONE LIDAR CHARACTERIZATION OF AVALANCHES TRIGGERED BY A MID-WINTER RAIN EVENT ON NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Anthony D. Maue, Devin Cvitanovich, William C. Floyd, Benjamin O'Connor, Sergey Marchenko, Maartje Korver, Eva Griffiths
Description: As part of ongoing snow hydrology research, regular drone- and plane-based lidar surveys are conducted each winter and spring in the Russell Creek Exp...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.56.pdf
Keywords: lidar, drone, snow depth, rain, weather station
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Title: CLIMATE-DRIVEN SHIFTS IN SNOWPACK CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR WET SNOW AVALANCHES: INSIGHTS FROM SNOW COVER MODEL SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Christoph Mitterer, Karl Birkeland, Eric Sproles, Erich Peitzsch
Description: Forecasting wet snow avalanches remains a major challenge due to their temporal and spatial variability. Long-term climate trends are producing more v...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.48.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, wet snow, snow depth, pgw, long-term trends, avalanche forecasting
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Title: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF PRECIPITATION INPUTS ON SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS IN WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kelsea Krawetz, Pascal Haegeli, Simon Horton
Description: Public avalanche forecasters in Canada increasingly rely on snowpack models to augment manual observations for avalanche hazard assessments, but sever...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack models, precipitation, uncertainty, snow depth, validation
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Title: EXPLORING THE USE OF A MULTIVARIATE SNOW INDEX IN THE PYRENEES TO CHARACTERIZE SNOW SEASONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Anna Albalat, Laura Trapero , Marc Lemus-Canovas, Marc Pons
Description: In recent decades, snow depth in European mountain regions like the Pyrenees has tended to decrease due to the increase in both temperature and precip...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.3.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, multivariate snow index, mountain areas, winter season, snow variability
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Title: WHERE TO PUT THE WEATHER STATION? OPTIMIZING THE LOCATION FOR AUTOMATED SNOW DEPTH MEASUREMENTS BASED ON REMOTE SENSING, AVALANCHE MODELING AND TERRAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Yves Buhler, Andreas Stoffel, David Liechti
Description: Automated weather stations (AWS) measuring snow-related parameters are essential for avalanche warning in many regions. Key data include new snow accu...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.10.pdf
Keywords: weather station, spatial variability, remote sensing, snow depth, hazard indication mapping, avalanche warning
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Title: DRONE-MOUNTED SNOW RADAR SYSTEM - QUANTITATIVE FIELD VALIDATION OF TERRESTRIAL SNOW MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Rolf-Ole R. Jenssen, Hannah Vickers, Robert Ricker, Eirik Malnes, Svein Jacobsen
Description: Airborne ground-penetrating radar systems offer a secure and time-efficient method for measuring snow depth and snowpack stratigraphy in challenging t...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P8.2.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, snow depth, radar, drone
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Title: SNOW DEPTHS IN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS USING ICESAT-2 AND SENTINEL-1
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Rasmus Meyer, Mathias Schødt, Jonas Kvist Andersen, Mads Dømgaard, Mikkel Lydholm Rasmussen, Anders Anker Bjørk
Description: Knowledge about seasonal snow accumulation is key for managing water resources, especially in mountainous regions. However, accurate measurements of s...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O9.4.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, remote sensing, icesat-2, sentinel-1
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Title: ON THE INFLUENCE OF SNOW DEPTH ON SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS IN THE RELEASE AREAS OF OBSERVED SKIER-TRIGGERED AVALANCHES
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Stephan Harvey, Yves Bühler
Description: The snow-covered winter surface differs significantly from its snow-free equivalent due to the smoothing caused by progressive snow accumulation and e...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.1.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, surface shape, surface roughness, snow avalanches, remote sensing
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Title: SNOW DEPTH VARIABILITY IN AN AVALANCHE RELEASE ZONE: ONE SEASON OF MEASUREMENTS AND TOPOGRAPHIC RELATIONS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Pia Ruttner-Jansen, Annelies Voordendag, Julia Glaus, Andreas Wieser, Yves Bühler
Description: Wind- and gravity-induced redistribution of snow leads to a high variability in snow depth across a slope, which is one of the major drivers to be ta...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P9.5.pdf
Keywords: lidar, snow depth, wind-drifted snow, modeling
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Title: VISUALIZING STATISTICAL ANNUAL SNOW DEPTH DATA USING EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS AND ONLINE GIS TOOLS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ryan Buhler
Description: Assessing snow climate and snow cover distribution is important to several industries, including hydrology, avalanche risk management, remote industri...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.03.pdf
Keywords: maximum height of snow, snow depth, extreme value statistics, gis dashboard
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